Book Description
Marie Antoinette's Head - historical kindle ebook marketing by Will Bashor
The
eighteenth-century French court’s rococo hairstyles—if such a word can
even be applied to the elaborate confections—are the stuff of legend.
Marie Antoinette’s Head: The Royal Hairdresser, the Queen, and the
Revolution certainly gives you plenty of bang for your buck in that
regard: thirty-pound wigs, mouse-infested coiffures, and the occasional
miniature naval battle all make appearances. But it is also a scholarly
history not merely of the vagaries and politics of Versailles court
fashion, but the rise and fall of Léonard Autié, a man of modest
background who rose to become hairdresser to the queen, and whose
fortunes were inexplicably tied to that of the doomed monarchy